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Performance or Productivity

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Low-level programs usually execute faster and cost more labor; high-level programs finish sooner and prevent whole error classes — two legitimate priorities, each with settings that favor it.

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A trading engine and a quarterly report generator deserve different ends of the spectrum.

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Neither end wins in general; the setting decides.